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Indonesia offers troops to U.N. force
Sep 1 2006 11:41PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Indonesia said Saturday it will send up to 1,000 troops to southern Lebanon by the month's end, after Israel dropped objections to its participation in the U.N. peacekeeping force.
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Bin Laden manhunt still drawing a blank
Sep 1 2006 11:10PM (CT)
AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER (AP) - The al-Qaida terror camps are gone from Afghanistan, but the enigma of Osama bin Laden still hangs over these lawless borderlands where tens of thousands of U.S. and Pakistani troops have spent nearly five years searching for him.
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N.Korea blasts U.S. missile defense test
Sep 1 2006 10:41PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Saturday accused the United States of threatening war against the communist nation with its missile defense test, and vowed to strengthen its own self-defense to counter any U.S. attack.
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U.N. accuses official of corruption
Sep 1 2006 8:23PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A United Nations investigation has concluded that a U.N. official took kickbacks such as low-cost apartments for steering lucrative contracts to a company from his native India.
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British soldier killed in Afghanistan
Sep 1 2006 2:51PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An insurgent attack killed one British soldier and seriously wounded another Friday in the latest fighting to wrack southern Afghanistan, while suspected Taliban gunmen ambushed and shot dead a district chief, officials said.
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Man's family slams Pakistan over burial
Sep 1 2006 2:04PM (CT)
DERA BUGTI, Pakistan (AP) - Doubt swirled around Friday's funeral for a tribal chief killed in a Pakistani military raid after officials rejected demands to open his padlocked coffin for inspection and buried it in a different location than where his family wanted.
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Tamil rebels vow to hold onto enclave
Sep 1 2006 9:14AM (CT)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels vowed Friday to hang on to a key northeastern enclave after the military pounded the area with airstrikes and artillery for a fifth day.
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Pakistani court convicts Shiite militant
Sep 1 2006 7:39AM (CT)
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - A court Friday convicted a Shiite Muslim militant of organizing the bombing of a Sunni gathering that killed 39 people in 2004, and he was sentenced to death, lawyers said.
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Abe declares candidacy for Japan premier
Sep 1 2006 5:07AM (CT)
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to be Japan's next prime minister, announced his candidacy Friday, promising to defend Japan's interests and maintain the security alliance with the United States.
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Abe declares candidacy for Japan premier
Sep 1 2006 4:02AM (CT)
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - Shinzo Abe, the nationalist front-runner to be Japan's next prime minister, announced his candidacy Friday, promising to defend Japan's interests and maintain the security alliance with the United States.
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Japanese princess to give birth next week
Sep 1 2006 3:12AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Princess Kiko will give birth by Caesarean section on Sept. 6, the Imperial Household Agency announced Friday, amid speculation the Japanese royal family could produce its first male heir in four decades.
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China trying to tighten media control
Sep 1 2006 2:56AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's jailing of a Hong Kong reporter as a spy reflects a deepening dilemma for the communist government: how to tighten control over information in an increasingly open, Internet-savvy society.
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Indian, Bangladeshi border guards clash
Sep 1 2006 2:25AM (CT)
GAUHATI, India (AP) - Indian and Bangladeshi border guards traded fire for the third time in a month, officials in northeastern India said Friday. No injuries were reported.
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U.S. Newmont exec on trial in Indonesia
Sep 1 2006 12:37AM (CT)
MANADO, Indonesia (AP) - An American gold-mining executive took the stand for the first time Friday and defended himself against allegations his company dumped millions of tons of mercury and arsenic-laced waste into a bay, sickening villagers.
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